Lessons From Life's Palatte

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The world itself is an institute of learning such that if school doesn't teach you, best believe that life will.

Personally, I have had my fair share of experiences, which went forth to teach me a lot of lessons and also elevated my position in life after I had learned the lessons.

You know, this hive learners prompt on lessons outside the formal educational system reminded me of a recent discovery of mine. Some months back, I saw that I started loving bright and bold colors of clothing, which was weird because I am a dark-shade-kinda girl.

I remember having an occasion to attend sometime in the past, and I needed a colored outfit. But after bringing out all the clothes from my wardrobe, including my boxes of clothing, I saw that I had no befitting outfit that best suits the occasion.

I was frustrated, to say the least, as I stood helplessly, staring at my messed-up room. It was at that moment I realized that I had no bold color in my clothing collections, and all I could see scattered all over the place were dark shades ranging from black to grey, and the only color that brightened my clothing collections was white.

While this might not appear as a big deal for some, it was for me, as it became a problem and a barrier. I decided to change the color pattern of my clothing and cloth myself with bolder colors. This I started by getting a bright yellow pant, which I hated and barely wore lol.

Basically, yellow is one of the boldest colors that you can find, and the pant was a beautiful one, but unless I’m wearing it with a black top, I don’t picture myself in it. Well, it was a good start, and gradually my wardrobe was filled with other brighter colors and designs.

At first I had all these bright colors and never a motivation to wear them. Fortunately for me, as life progressed, I felt the urge to try them out, and whenever I took pictures in them, I couldn't help but notice how radiant I looked in all the photos.

Well, it all made sense recently. My love for darker shades and how I slowly transitioned to brighter colors of clothing. This realization came after I uploaded a photo on my WhatsApp status with a caption, "I wonder why I love darker shades of clothing when I actually look better in brighter ones."

After uploading that status, I stared at the photo for a while, and as I stared, I reflected back to my darker days and all the challenges that accompanied them. I saw how depressed I was then, as life was tough, and then these darker shades of clothing gave me a sense of relief, as whenever I wore them, I had the feeling of fitting perfectly into my depressed state.

All that changed when I started to sense some improvements in my life, and then these darker shades of clothing began to bore me. Gradually I noticed that the better my living conditions get, the more attracted I am to brighter colors.

I couldn't really explain this term, but I was aware, and in my awareness I had someone respond to that status of mine informing me how the colors we get attracted to are influenced by the dominant colors in our aura and our level of consciousness.

You see, this experience taught me a lot about how strongly all that meets the eye is being influenced by the unseen. Really not even chemistry or physics or probably psychology could have cracked that.